You know about artcraft? The new vibe coded adobe suite clone? Someone needs to claud MS office lol

I totally changed my KDE themes to be XP-esque, sound themes and all, just to have the good parts I missed, but keep a usable OS haha.

M$ has done and continues to do a lot of terribad things, but XP wasn't one of them. Computers felt fun back then.

....Minus all the security issues. That's gotten better with time...

Edit: Oh yeah there's a subreddit of people modernizing XP and making new drivers for it and stuff LOL

Just Claude a Windows 97 at this point, for funsies. Lol

I remember setting up a fresh XP install for a friend, and within seconds of plugging in the ethernet cable Internet Explorer started opening tons of flashing ad windows everywhere. Firewall wasn't on by default I guess? LOL

I also remember that system messenger exploit that could send spam as system "OK" prompts to any XP machine. That was wild.

Yeah the crazy thing is that most people were using ADSL connections directly from their computer, without a router.

Raw dogging the internet with no firewall, that was wild.

Also if you had gotten a cracked "no key" version it would have come with malware

That's a really good point. Maybe that was cool before the Internet was swarming with exploit-sniffing bots, but nowadays? I can't even imagine!

I've seen some videos where people open port 80 on their home network running something like PFSense. In seconds it's like "Now_all_of_China_knows_you're_here.jpeg" LOL.